Game.



ZOLPER.

V GAME.

APPLICATION FILED OGT.17, 1914,

1,127,345., Patented Feh.2;1915.

THE NORRIS "TERS no. PHOTG-LITHIL. WASHIN5 TON, D c

WILHELM ZOLPER, OF WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF T0 HARRY I F. SCI-INEPF, OF WILMINGTON, DELAWARE.

GAME.

Specification of Letters IE'atent.

Patented Feb, 2, 1915.

Application filed October 17, 1914. Serial No. 867,063.

tien traverses the field, whereby the peg or pin may enter the pockets thereof without liability to return to said mound in which there are no pockets, which ordinarily would also interfere with the free starting motions of the spinner.

It consists also of the construction of the body of the game of a circular wall or inclosure, a ring on the interior thereof at the lower end thereof adapted to support the field of the game and rest on a table, etc, on which the game is played, and avoiding a bottom which permits the employment of a larger spinner so that its pin will unfailingly enter a pocket without liability of touching the table top, etc., and so be thrown up by the same.

The invention is satisfactorily illustrated in the accompanying drawing, but the important instrumentalities thereof may be varied, and so it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the specific details shown and described.

Figure 1 represents a top or plan view partly broken away of a game embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a diametrical section thereof, on line wm Fig. 1.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the figures.

Referring to the drawings:1 designates a circular field having therein a series of numbered openings or pockets 2 to receive the shanks or pins of the spinners 3.

4: designates an inclosure for said field, the same being of the form of a circular rim so as to fully surround said field and prevent the loss of the spinners therefrom. Secured to the lower portion of the inner side of the inclosing rim 4 is the hoop or ring 5 the top of which forms the shoulder 6 on which the peripheral portion of the field 1 is rested, it being noticed that the bottom edge of the ring 5 is flush with the bottom edge of the rim 4, so that both of said edges may rest steady on the table, board, etc, on which the game may be played and there is no bottom proper between the underside of the field l and the top of the table, it being noticed that larger spinners may be employed, they being more efi'ective'in rotation and their pins will more readily drop in the pockets and remain therein without striking the table, board, etc, and be thrown-up by the same.

The center of the upper face of'the field has formed thereon the mound 7 the top 8 of which is horizontally fiat parallel with the surface of the mound, and the border of which is sloping as at 9, from said top to the plane of the field, hence when the game is to be played, a spinner is placed on said top 8 and. twirled, whereby its peg or pin is rested first on said flat top and the spinner operated, it twirls thereon and then may traverse the same, but if it exhausts itself on said top, there is no count to the player. If, however, it reaches the right-lined sloping periphery 9, it descends the same with rapidity and consequently considerable force whereby it is correspondingly directed over the field proper, and if said peg or pin enters a pocket it counts for the player according to the number thereof, but even failing to do this it cannot return to the mound, which as is evident, has no pocket or pockets therein, which if existing would prevent the proper starting of the game. There may be a number of players in which case the spinner will be of difierent colors, in the present case, red, white and blue.

The mound 7 is integral with the field 1, it being pressed up from the material of the same at the center thereof as a truncated cone which is strong and durable as a crimp not liable to be broken down and it reduces the weight and expense of the device, and as the mound has no separate joint with said field it is not liable to disengage or be disengaged therefrom.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Let ters Patent, is:

1. In a game of the character stated including a spinner, a field having numbered openings therein, and a mound on the upper face of said field, the peripheral portion of said mound leading to said face, the top of said mound being fiat, and the side thereof a right-lined slope Which latter extends from said top to said field as a jointless continuity of each. i

2. A game of the character stated composed of a main field having numbered openings therein, and a supplemental field elevated therefrom, the latter being supported by a right lined sloping side Wall Which ex tends from said main field to the top of said supplemental field, said side Wall and top being integral With the material of said main field crimped therefrom.

3. A game of the character stated composed of a main field having numbered openings therein, and a circumferential inclosure, and a supplemental field composed of a flat top member elevated from said held and parallel therewith, and a sloping side Wall supporting said top and extending from the main field to said top, said Wall and top being integral With each other'and said field and raised from the material of the latter.

\ WILHELM ZOLPER.

v Witnesses:

THOMAS H. BUGKLEY, H. M. SKINNER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

